Crossword-Solution: TARTAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tartar | n. | A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. |
| Tartar | n. | A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. |
| Tartar | n. | A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar. |
| Tartar | n. | A person of a keen, irritable temper. |
| Tartar | a. | Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. |
| Tartar | n. | See Tartarus. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TARTAR (5)
And it was very affecting--my enemy wiped away a tear! Then I fed them up on chocolate and whipped cream and lemonade and tartar sandwiches, and sent them home, expansive and beaming, but without any appetite for dinner.
The two peasants, the old man and the young boy, were hanged by a Tartar hangman from Kazan, a cruel convict and a murderer.
This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe into the Crusades.
You had seem'd more like a martyr, Than you seem to us, To the beasts that caught a Tartar Once at Ephesus; Rather than the stout apostle Of the Gentiles, who, Pagan-like, could cuff and wrestle, They'd have chosen you.
Her eyes slanted a little, as if she had a strain of Tartar or gypsy blood, and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque.
Quotes with TARTAR (3)
A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the stimulus of an unnatural excitement, new beings are evolved, beings who, while having the outward shape of their former selves, and, indeed, most of the old outward characteristics, are yet reborn in some subtle way and are no longer the same.... The salt of life! Is it true, or is it merely a mistake, such as life-loving man naturally makes? For it can be nothi…
He might be better considered as an exponent of Tartar financial, military, and political methods, who used the shifting alliances of khans and princes to replace the Tartar yoke with a Muscovite one. In his struggle with the Golden Horde, whose hegemony he definitively rejected after 1480, his closest ally was the Khan of the Crimea, who helped him to attack the autonomy of his fellow Christian principalities to a degree that the Tartars had never attempted. From the Muscovi…
This formidable officine dates from Peter the Great, who formed it in 1697... its historic origins must, however, be looked for much earlier; one finds them in the byzantine traditions and in the operations of the Tartar domination... espionage, delation, torture, and secret executions were the normal and regulating instruments of the |||||||| police.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 149 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).